Spring is Coming

Amazingly, these little blooms showed up 3 weeks ago.  As much as I tried to persuade them to "go back" because it was so early, they persisted.  Enjoy a bit of spring's beauty!

Getting in touch with our Kenyan roots

Fellow seminary student Shane & his wife Kristie invited us to join her birthday celebration.  They wanted to check out a new restaurant that we found out was being run by another seminary student that hails from Kenya.  Thinking we wanted authentic, we allowed our buddy to order for us!
So here is the tilapia...before....

and here is something else, which we can't pronounce, which included lamb, pico de gallo, and ugali...

 

 

a classic "Scott" reaction

Shane's accomplishment....

The tilapia....after it met it's match

We had a great time!!  Tanzania here I (Scott) come!

A Rainbow in Winter

What a beautiful and unusual sight in winter...the rainbow - a symbol and reminder of God's promise to us.

Another New Chapter

Some of you may or may not know that I stumbled upon a job posting just a little over a month ago that seemed, possibly, a great match.  After 4 interviews, I was very excited to receive a call on February 10th, extending me a job offer.  I accepted.  Done deal.  Today was my first day.

Dressed in my "big-girl-job clothes," as dubbed by my friend Mesu, I headed out for my first real commute to work since April 2009.  Let's just say that Portland traffic is, in not so many words, awful.  Add a little precipitation and the threat of 1 inch of accumulated snow at 500' and above, and you get a commute you never bargained for.  I love my 99 Camry and the fact that it gets 32 mpg.  However, after spending 1 hour in the car to go a mere 15 miles, I was having flashbacks of leaving Cedar Point after the park closed on a Saturday night in the summer.  Stop and go. Stop and go.  Did I mention the Camry has manual transmission?


So here it is my 1st day of work and I have to make a call to my supervisor to let her know I'd be late.  Nice.  Thinking I might be fired before I ever start (not really), I made a somewhat panicked call to Scott to find out the main line's number of my new employer.  Unfortunately, that number yielded another voicemail stating that the nice option of pressing "#" for the directory, met me with a message that I was not allowed to use that option.  Hmmmm.

I arrived only 15 mins. late and all was fine.  Phew.  My first day consisted of a quick tour, a meeting about my benefits and a bunch of paperwork, followed by 3 back-to-back meetings about compliance, regulations, and legislation.  Good thing there was food!

It really was a good day!  I am very happy to be working for this non-profit that supports healthcare organizations and hospitals, and I believe there will be many more good days ahead.